In article <3sc148$8nn@netnews.upenn.edu>,
Kevin Sterner <sterner@sel.hep.upenn.edu> wrote:>In article <3sapbs$nts@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>, davidcs@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (David Smyth) writes:>>> I just know the physicists are going to tell me what I just said is>> incorrect - and they are right according to General Relativity. The>> pendulum would rotate due to gravitational effects of the rest of the>> rotating universe if the earth was stationary. My apologies to>> the Swami (even if I still think he did fall out of a very tall tree).>>Nope, it can't work that way. You were right the first time. If you were